Cyanogen is expanding its leadership role to prepare for the growth of the smartphone market. In doing so, Cyanogen is hiring industry veterans from Microsoft, Xbox, and MediaTek to develop and promote CyanogenMod. . The new leadership team additions were announced in a blog post.

For its VP of Product, Cyanogen has hired Dave Herman, a customer services veteran who had previously worked for Hulu, Amazon, and Microsoft.

Tyler Carpenter, who recently worked as Director of Engineering for smartphone-maker HTC, will be joining as VP of Engineering. Carpenter also previously held a position at Microsoft for Xbox.

And lastly, Vik Natarajan will be serving as VP of Global Partnerships and Distribution. Prior to joining Cyanogen, Natarajan had worked for MediaTek and Broadcom.

Are you excited about the new additions to the leadership team? What features or functionality do you want the team to focus on for CyanogenMod?

I can top that.....I've tried CM on 2 different HTCs and 3 different Samsungs and the experience was nothing but a bug riddled hot mess in each instance. So, no matter what "veterans" in the industry that they might bring on board.....CM will never find its way back onto one of my devices....

Funny I used it on several devices and only really had issues on one, the Samsung vibrant, and that was Samsungs fault for not giving source. Some of these manufacturers don't release all the source thus causing issues.

Loved CM on my Captivate. My S3 on the other hand. It was horrible! Battery would drain at the rate of 10-15% per hour. Camera would FC either after taking a photo or rotating the camera from portrait to landscape. BT worked only once. Likely Samsung fault, but, CM will never be a "stable" or M release for Samsung devices.

So, three senior execs all from notoriously opensource-unfriendly companies.

So much for Cyngn's commitment to open source - although anyone who has paid attention to the company's actions (which speak louder than words, especially with Focal) has known that committment wasn't really there from the beginning.